ONCE AGAIN LIBERATIONISM

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"ONCE AGAIN LIBERATIONISM, ONCE AGAIN NEO-ISKROVISM" OR "REVOLUTION AND DICTATORSHIP".

Add section S:
"The Concept of Revolution and the Slogan of Dictatorship"

1) New material:
U  U
71 — 2
(("Liberation")
and
U U 102 — 3 (Iskra)).

2) Liberal "realism" and social-democratic "realism" (U 102) [praised by Mr. Struve]. Struve's praise.

A brochure by Engels will be published by us.6)

2 bis) The frivolousness of Martynov's evasions... Does not attack the resolution of the 3rd Congress.

3) "[Lenin] has substituted the concepts of revolution and dictatorship" (U 102, p. 3, col. 2).7)

4) Struve on revolution in U 71 ("revolution must become government").8)

5) Struve's backwardness: Shipov's [movement] — constitution — revolution — democratic dictatorship??
(For us — socialist dictatorship.)

6) Martynov again and again does not understand the difference between the Liberation slogans and ours... Inability to guide the revolution and lead it further through (or: in the direction of) the slogan: dictatorship.

7) Marx and Engels in 1848 on "dictatorship". Revolutionary government and dictatorship.

Vulgar conception of dictatorship and Marx.9) I. * I.

I. [Liberal] Why do bourgeois-liberal "realists" praise the "realists" of social-democracy?

II. A new "deepening of the question" by comrade Martynov.

III. The vulgar depiction of dictatorship and the Marxist view of it.

*) Here and below (as well as in document "в") the numerals denote pages of the manuscript of the brochure "Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution".

2) The "new paragraph" outlined here was included as a "Postscript" to the brochure "Two Tactics" under the same title given to the note presented here: "Once Again Liberationism, Once Again Neo-Iskrovism". This "postscript" is divided into three sections, each with its own title, which with minor variations repeat the titles outlined by Lenin at the end of document "е" (p. 319, lines below the line), namely:

I. Why do bourgeois-liberal "realists" praise the "realists" of social-democracy.

II. A new "deepening" of the question by comrade Martynov.

III. The vulgar-bourgeois depiction of dictatorship and Marx's view of it.

3) This refers to the article by Struve signed "P. S." "The Triumph of Common Sense" in No. 72 of "Liberation" of June 21 (8), 1905.

4) Das nicht sofort dictatorisch vorgeht — that he did not proceed dictatorially. Words of Marx (more precisely of the N. R. Newspaper), taken from Mehring's introduction to Vol. III of "The Legacy" (Russ. trans., 1926, p. 53) and cited by Lenin in the brochure "Two Tactics". (Works, Vol. VIII, p. 119). These words referred specifically not to Hansemann (as stated in Lenin's note) but to Camphausen (as stated in Lenin's final text).

5) This refers to: from No. 71 of "Liberation" of May 31 (18), 1905, the article signed Peter Struve "How to Find Oneself"; from No. 72 of "Liberation" of June 21 (8), the article signed N — ch "The Schism in Russian Social-Democracy" and by P. Struve "Russian Revolution and the World (An Open Letter to Jean Jaurès)"; from No. 102 of "Iskra" of June 28 (15), Martynov's article "In Struggle with Marxist Conscience"; from No. 103 of "Iskra" of July 4 (June 21), the conclusion of the same article by Martynov. An analysis of the contents of the cited articles according to the plan outlined in document "е" comprised the content of the "Postscript" to the brochure "Two Tactics".

6) A reference to the forthcoming publication by "Proletarii" of Engels' brochure "The Bakuninists at Work".

7) Words of Martynov from his article in No. 72 of "Iskra". (Note 3.)

8) In No. 72 of "Liberation" of June 21 (8), 1905, not in 71, as erroneously indicated by Vladimir Ilyich, in the article signed Peter Struve. "Russian Revolution and the World (An Open Letter to Jean Jaurès)", it is stated: "After unheard-of defeats, peace with Japan can be concluded only by a strong government; a government can be strong only through radical reforms, consequently, for concluding peace, i.e. for resolving the fundamental question of foreign policy, just as for the internal pacification of the country, revolution must become a government in Russia."

9) This point, like the corresponding lines in document "д", outlined the content of Section III of the "Postscript" to the brochure "Two Tactics". In this section Vladimir Ilyich made use of numerous markings from articles by Marx and Engels of 1848, which he made in the document presented by us on pp. 255 — 257.